A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devils Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
1973
HD
151min
PG
United States
English
Franklin J. Schaffner
Victor Jory
Don Gordon
Dustin Hoffman
Steve McQueen
Robert Deman
Woodrow Parfrey
George Coulouris
Anthony Zerbe
Bill Mumy
prison
jungle
based on memoir or autobiography
prison escape
corrupt official
solitary confinement
remote island
french colonialism
labor camp
leper colony
